A BLACK FLAG WAR

We live in a society that's hesitant to be critical of any other culture, no matter its darkened depravity. We're in the miasma of moral relativism, an atmosphere in which all cultures are equal, none superior, none inferior to the other. No judgments, please.

ROUSSEAU STARTED THIS MESS

In this climate, the American Indian is viewed by the term Rousseau invented, "the noble savage," which re-enforces the idea that the Indian was the oppressed victim without fault. But we need a more balanced picture, not one in which history is air brushed.

ENTER THE INDIAN

When the settlers moved west into Texas territory, they encountered the Karankawa tribe and they were something to behold. To look at them was to see men who were strikingly tall, between six and almost seven feet. But there was more to their appearance than qualifying for any NBA basketball team.

The Karankawa were heavily tattooed, heavily pierced, and painted. The nomadic tribe, held the islands for the most part in south Texas. The territory they held was from the west end of Galveston Island down the coast to the mouth of the Rio Grande and inland about 25-65 miles depending on the region.

But hold on. You may be thinking that you can't judge a noble book by its ignoble cover, but in their case you could: they were degenerate cannibals. They weren't the innocent and the noble, savage or otherwise. The Spaniards and the Americans who met and had to deal with them said that they were superb hunters, fisherman, warriors, and longbow archery experts. In short, they were a powerful enemy to anyone wishing to take their prime hunting hunting grounds which they had taken from some other tribe.

DEGENERATE TO THE CORE

But hold on again: In 1768, a Spanish padre gave details to their flesh eating ceremonies. The "savages" [he hadn't heard that you shouldn't call another culture "savage"] would lash a captive to a stake and then, dancing around the sacrifice, they would dart in, slice off a piece of flesh with a sharp blade, then roast it in front of the victim, in an already prepared campfire. Then they would devour it, as the victim watched in horror at the consumption of himself, before his very eyes.

NO WAY

Now, enter the 19th century settlers. There was no way, absolutely no way, the Karankawa and the Americans or the Spanish or the French could coexist in peaceful and harmonious relations. Neither group could reason with the other. Neither group could educate the other. From the settlers' point of view, it was, it had to be, "Kill the Karankawa." If they didn't they, their wives, and their children would be eaten in some ritual from hell.

WE'VE HEARD THIS BEFORE

Wait a minute. This sounds similar to what Israel faced as they entered the Promised Land. Instead of the Karankawa, they faced the Canaanites whom they described as "giants." They faced the depravity of the Canaanites whose religious practices were just as depraved as the Karankawa, since the Canaanites burned their own children alive as sacrifices.

According to God's command to Israel, there was to be no co-existence; there couldn't be. Detente wouldn't work. Reason wouldn't cut it with the Canaanites.The degenerate mothers would raise degenerate children to be warriors to exterminate the Jews, so it was to be a black flag war. That's a war in which the you attack the enemy ferociously and never let up, always trying to flank the enemy, never letting him sleep, never letting him rest. Israel was to raise the black flag and hold it high. Now, we know why.

We can understand the rationale behind God's command because our ancestors faced similar circumstances.